Fare-register.



PATENTED JUNE 9, 1908. J. P. oHMER & E. SBEBBRS.

FARE REGISTER.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 28. 1907.

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FARE REGISTER.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. ze. 1907.

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JOHN F. OHMER, OF DAYTON, OHIO, AND EDWARD SEEBERS, OF PORTLAND, OREGON, ASSIGNORS TO OHMER FARE REGISTER COMPANY, OF DAYTON, OHIO.`

FARE-REGISTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 9, 1908.

Application led January 28, 1907.' Serial No. 354,550.

T o all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JOHN F. OHMER and EDWARD SEEBERs, citizens of the United States, residing, respectively, at Dayton, Montgomery county, Ohio, and Portland, Multnomah county, ,Orego n, have invented certain new and .useful Im rovements in F are-Registers; and we do dec are the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawin s, and to the letters and figuresmarked t ereon, which form a part of this s cciication.

This invention re ates to new and useful improvements in fare registers, and more specifically to im rovements in the means for indicating the vares registered, at the machine or register.

The object oi the invention is to provide, in lieuof a lurality of s ecific fare indicalic-ator operating in conjunction with any of the specific fare counters, or in otherwords, a unitary indicator which carries indications forall the s eciiic i are counters, and which is operate when a fare is registered on any of said speciiic Alare counters. The said indicator is operatively connected with auxiliary fare indicators which show corres onding fare indications; such a 'machine is ully described and illustrated in my re-issue Patent No. 11,681 of July 19, 1898.

Another object of the invention is to prevent movement of the unitary indicator in or atl the register during the setting movement of the actuating device, at which time the auxiliary indicators are moved to positions. So far as we are aware, all registers having unitary fare indicators, operatively connected with auxiliary fare indicators, are so constructed that the indicators in .the register are moved simultaneously and correspondingly with the auxiliary indicators during the preliminary or setting movement, thereby making it easy 'fora conductor operating the register to practice fraud by collecting, say twenty-five cents, and registering a fare of a smaller denomination, and then immediately setting the register to indicate twenty-five cents. The present invention provides means cooperating with a unitary indicator, whereby said indicator can be moved only with the registration of a away to disclose theoperati-ng devices for the unitary indicator. vation of the operatin register. iliary farel indicator and the mechanism for selecting the Jfares to be registered and for indicating such fares at various oints. on the interior of the car by means o the auxiliary indicators. Fig. 7, is a detached view of the carriage comprising a portion of the selecting and o erating devices.

In a detail tescription of the invention, similar reference characters indicate corresponding parts.

As illustrated in Fig. 1, ofthe drawings, the fare indicators 2 are permanent or iin'- movable, being placed on the fron-t face of the register casing 1 and as so shown comprise three distinct denominations of fares, to-wittickets 5c and 3c fares.

Operating in connection with the fare indications so arranged on a unitary indicator, and whiclrmay of course be varied to include'fare denominations, other than those shown is a pointer 10' which is movable to positions to point to the fare registered. This pointer lies in the front of the casing and has iixed to its shaft a pinion 15 lying on the inside of the register casing. In mesh with said pinion is a segment gear 11 which is fixed to avshaft 12 extending rearwardl and which is journaled inY a rigid cross )ar 16 attached to the sides of the casing or in any other suitable manner. On the rearward end of the shaft 12 there is fixed ,a cam late 13 having four downwardly-dispose( working surfaces 14 which' are alternately engaged by pins 17, one of which. is 'fixed 'to the outer side of each of the operating members 18 through which the ratchets ol' the specilc fare counters 1ll are actuated.

From Fig. 4, of the drawings, it will be Fig. 5,'1s a front elemechanism for the Fig. 6, is a etail view of an auxquence, the pointer will be moved to a position to indicate the fare of the particular specific fare counter 1 thus actuated by its operating member 18. IOn the shaft of the v` pointer 10 there is a plate 19 which has a series of peripheral recesses 6 which are engaged, according to the position of the pointer, by a roller 7 which interlocks therewith and holds the pointer 10 in each position in which it is placed and until theneXt succeeding operation of said pointer. The locking roller 7 is mounted upon a pivotal arm 8 which is normally under the iniiuence of a s ring 9 tov maintain a proper engagement etween said roller and the periphery of the plate 19. The arm 8 and its controlling spring 9 are suitably mounted on the yinterior of the casing. l.

The modification illustrated in Fig. 2, consists of the substitution of a segmental dial 3 in place of the pointer 10; this dial operates 1n substantially the same manner and has inscribed upon it the fare indications 5 which are movable in the rear of the visual opening 4 in the front of the casing. The said dial is geared to the rock shaft 12 through gearing 11 and 15 similar to that employed in connection with the pointer 10. The lower portion of said dial is provided with the locking recesses 6 which eoperate with the roller 7 to maintain the indications on said dial at the visual opening in the same manner that the pointer 10 is maintained in position. The operating members or slides 18 move in the usual guide-ways 19SL in the rear of the casing 1 and move` ment is imparted to said operating members to simultaneously register.l a selected fare counter, and the cam plate 13, by the well known operating mechanism shown in Fig. 5. This o erating mechanism briefly described comprises the lifting bar 20 which is movable upon guides 21 fixed to opposite sides of the frame 22 which is attached at the rear of the register casing the lifting bar 20 is elevated by either of the bell crank levers 23 from connections extending on the interior of the car in a well known manner. The horizontallymovable carriage 24 lies in the rear of the lifting bar 20 and is movable on the horizontal guide 25 fixed to the stationary framework. This carriage 24 supports the actuating member 26 which is adapted to engage the rearward lug 27 on each of the operating members 18 in a Well known manner, and the said member 26 is lifted by the lifting bar 2() through means of the extension 28 which projects through the elongated slot 29 in said lifting bar 2() and is thus movable to a position to actuatc the selected fare-operatlng member 18.

The carriage 24 is movable along the guide bar 25 to thus bring the operating member 26 below the selected fare-operating member 18 by the means shown and described in our pending application No. 348,362 which consists briefly of a pitman 30 which is pivotally connected to an ear 31 projecting from a side of the carriage, said pitman being connected at its other end to a crank arm 32,fixed to a setting rod 33 which extends into the car and is operated by hand to move the carriage 24 to a position to enable the operating device 26 to be moved to a position to operate a selected fare counter. The setting rod 33 has also fixed to it a pointer 34 which is in alinement with the crank arm 32 and is movable over the face of a setting dial 35 with the aXis of which the setting rod 33 is in alinement. The dial 35 may be duplicated at suitable points along the rod 33 and the fares` indicated thereon correspond to those indicated at the register duri-ng the subsequent operation of the fare selected. We claim:

l. In a registering machine, a plurality of specific fare counters, means for selecting a specific counter to be operated, o erative means through which the counter se ected is operated, and a rocking indicator actuated by the means through which each individual selectfed counter is o ierated, and indicating the fare registered simultaneously with the registration thereof.

2. In a registering machine, a plurality of specific fare counters, means for selecting a specific counter to bc operated, individual devices for operating the counter selected, a rocking fare indicator, and meansactuated by the individual operating device of the selected counter and whereby the fare registered is vsimultaneously indicated by said rocking indicator.y

3. ln a registering machine, a plurality of specific fare counters, an individual operating member for each counter, a selective device adapted to be brought into operative relation with a selected counter, means for actuating said selective device to movethe individual operating member of the selected counter, a rocking fare indicator, and means engaged by said individual operating member of each counter to actuate said rocking fare indicator to a position to indicate the. fare rcgistered.

4. ln a registering machine, a plurality of specific fare counters, an individual operating member for each counter, a selective device adapted to be brought into operative rel'ation with the individual operating member of the selected counter, means for setting said selective device, means for operating said selective device to impart operating moven'lent to the individual operatingmemberof the selected counter, a permanent indicator, and means for rocking said permanent indicator through the movement of the individual operating member of the selected counter and means on the individual operating members of the counters for tripping said cam plate to rock the indicator toa position to indicate the fare of the counter actuated.

6. In a registering machine, a plurality of specific fare counters, means for selecting a specific counter to be operated, an individual actuator for .operating each counter selected for operation, an oscillating indicator to indicate the farev of the selected counter when said counter is'V operated, said indicator being actuated by the'individual actuator of each selected counter, and means for locking'said indicator in the position to which i-t has been moved in the registration of the fare.

7 In a registeringmachine, a plurality of specific fare` counters, an individual operating member for each counter, a rocking indicator to exhibit the fares as registered on each counter, a cam common to all of said individual operating members and adapted to be actuated by each of said individual operating members of the fare counters to rock the indicater to a position to simultaneously indicate the fare with the-registration thereof.

8. In a registering machine, a plurality of specific fare counters,- an individual operating member for each counter, a cam arranged to be engaged at different points by each individual operating member, a shaft rocked by said cam, and an indicator rocked by said shaft to a position to indicate the fare of the counter operated. A

9. In a registering machine, a plurality of specific fare counters, an individual operating member for each counter, a cam plate actuated by each individual operating member in registering the fares on any specific counter, a rock shaft actuated by said cam plate, and a fare indicator geared to said rock shaft and adapted to bel moved to 'positions to indicate the fare registered,simultaneously with the operation of the individual o )erating member of the counter upon which said fare is registered. i

10. In a registering machine, a plurality of specificfareprinting counters, an individual operating member for each counter, a selective operating device adapted to .be brought into o )erative relation with the individual operating member of a selected counter, se-

' lective means for indicating the position of said selective device relative to the individual` operating member of the fare counter selected, an operating member to impartinovement'to the individual operating memberfof the fare counter selected through the selective device, a permanent indicator, means interposed between said permanentindi'cator and the lindividual members of the f fare counters and whereby said indicator is'caused l to exhibit the fare simultaneously with 'the registration thereof through the actuation yof the individual operating member of theselected fare counter.`

11. In a registering machine, a plurality of specific lfare printing counters, an actuating member for each counter, a cani having four Working surfaces, each one of which'` cooperates with a dilerentone of the individual operating members of the fare counters, A

a fare indicator ada ted to receive rockingl movements from sai cam when the latter-isvv actuated by any one of the individual operating members simultaneous with the registration of Yai-fare and whereby the fare soI registered is caused tobe indicated on said indicator.

12. In a' registering machine, a plurality of specific fare counters, an individual operating member for each counter, a. cam adapted tobe rocked on either side of its pivot by the y l i engagement ofthe individual .operating members therewith, a shaft rocked by said ca'm, and an indicator rocked by'said shaft to positions to indicate the fares `registered upon the specific farey counters, said indicator having a series of indications thereoncorresponding in position to the working surfaces oi the cam, and in number to the number ofspeciiic fare-counters.

13. In a machine of the type specified, the combination with a plurality of specific vfare counters, and an individual actuator for each counter, of a unitary fare indicator for all the counters, an auxiliary fare indicator for all thel counters, means for selecting a specifi fare counter to be operated and to move the auxiliary indicator to indicate the fare of such selected counter, and means for operating the individual actuator of a selected counter to register a fare on such counter and to operate the unitary indicator to indicate such fare.

14. In a machine of the type speci-lied, the combination with a plurality of speciiic fare counters, and an individual actuator for each counter, of an oscillating unitary indicator actuated by each of the individual counter actuators to indicate the fare of each counter when operated, auxiliary fare indicators, means for selecting an individual actuator and a s eciiie counter' for operation, said means a so controllingtlie auxiliary fare indicators to indicate the fare of the selected counter, and means for actuating the individual actuator of the selected counterto register a fare on such counter and to operate the unitary indicator.

means for simultaneously actuating the selected fare counter and indicating upon the unitary indicator the fare registered.

16. In a machine of the class specified, a plurality of fare counters for different speciiic fares, an indicator to indicate at the register lthe fares of said counter, auxiliary fare indicators, means for selecting a fare counter to be actuated, said selective means concur rently indicating upon the auxiliary fare indicators the speciiic counter selected, and means for simultaneously actuating the selected counter and indicating the fare of such counter on the indicator at the register.

17. In a machine of the 4class speciiied, a plurality of speciiic fare counters, selective means for placing a desired counter in a condition to be operated, a unitary fare indicator and an auxiliary fare indicator, the unitary fare indicator being actuated simultaneously with the operation of the selected counter, and the auxiliary indicator being actuated in the operation of selecting a counter to be operated.

18. In a machine of the class specified, a plurality of speciiic fare counters, an individual actuator for each counter, selective devices for selecting a counter to be operated through its individual actuator, an oscillating unitary fare indicator' at the register operated by said individual actuator simultaneously with the operation of the selected counter, and an auxiliary fare indicator to `plurality of specific fare counters, an individual actuator for each counter, an oscillating indicator actuated by each of theiindividual counter actuators and upon Which the fare of any counter selected for operation is indicated, an auxiliary indicator, means for selecting` a specific counter to be operated and to move the auxiliary indicator to a position to indicate the fare to -be registered on such counter, and means for actuating the individual actuator of a selected counter to simultaneously operate such counter and the oscillating indicator in registering a fare upon a counter.

20. In a machine of the class specified, a

plurality of speciiic fare counters, an individual actuating member for each counter, a unitary fare indicator actuated by any of the individual actuating members to indicate the fare denomination of each counter when a counter is operated, auxiliary fare indicators, means for simultaneously selecting the individual actuating member of `any speciiic counter to be operated and moving the auxiliary fare indicator to indicate in advance the counter to be operated, and means for simultaneously actuating a selected counter and the unitary indicator through the individual actuating member of such counter.

ln testimony whereof We atlx our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN F. OHMER. EDWARD SEEBERS.

Witnesses:

R. J. McCARTY, C. M. THEOBOLD. 

